I looked at lavaland just the other day, and it seems to be defunct. No updates in a couple years, and plans for stuff that may get done during 2000. Can't get any freshly generated random data from them.
If I were to build something, I think a radio tuned to no station, patched to the mic input on a sound card would be a good and cheap chaos sampler.
How does the random number generator in Perl's rand work? It seems pretty good, and I remember years ago reading that they no longer use the C library's generator.
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From the perldelta for v5.6.0:
Better pseudo-random number generator
In 5.005_0x and earlier, perl's rand() function used the C library rand(3) function. As of 5.005_52, Configure tests for drand48(), random(), and rand() (in that order) and picks the first one it finds.
These changes should result in better random numbers from rand().
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#!/usr/bin/fnord
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